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Margot Adler’s new book explores our fascination with vampires. I’ve been fascinated with vampires ever...
March 04, 2014
There are times we approach the Gods with what we’d like to give them, or...
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Unfortunate Effects of Joseph Campbell
I’m very thankful for Joseph Campbell – he had just the right message at just...
February 2014
February 27, 2014
Nine Things I Think: odds and ends from Pantheacon, memorizing rituals vs. reading them, toning...
February 25, 2014
It’s one thing to use the power of the law to discourage self-destructive behavior. It’s...
February 23, 2014
A Libation Without a Prayer is Just a Spilled Drink
The Pantheacon panel on Sacrifice and Modern Paganism brought five knowledgeable Pagans together for a...
February 20, 2014
Have you ever been to a ritual or had a spontaneous religious experience where you’re...
February 18, 2014
Last year I wrote about my Pantheacon envy. This year I went to Pantheacon. It...
February 16, 2014
Why I Am (Still) a Unitarian Universalist
I’d love to belong to a Pagan organization that does (almost) everything UUs do but...
February 13, 2014
Lessons From the Nye-Ham Debate
I doubt the Nye-Ham debate changed your mind about evolution. I hope it causes you...
February 11, 2014
I had an great time at the ADF Texas Imbolc Retreat. I thank Chris Godwin...
February 09, 2014
Our mainstream culture tells us to ignore death and pretend it will never come, but...
February 06, 2014
The Earth, The Gods and The Soul
The Earth, The Gods and The Soul by Brendan Myers is the philosophy book I...
February 04, 2014
Why I Am a Devotional Polytheist
My beliefs about the Gods flow from my experience of the Gods. Of the various...
February 02, 2014
American Horror Story and the Currents of Magic
I had high hopes for American Horror Story: Coven and most of my expectations were...
January 2014
January 30, 2014
Nine Things I Think: Pagan Tea Time, retreats and conventions, new music from Damh the...
January 28, 2014
When fear causes you to take reasonable precautions and think about what you’re doing, that’s...
January 26, 2014
On a beautiful January day in Houston, 89 Pagans from a wide variety of traditions...
January 23, 2014
The conflation of belief with faith and faith with religion is a particularly unhelpful result...
January 21, 2014
Gary Andrews is the director and producer of The Spirit of Albion, the 2012 independent...
January 19, 2014
Martin Luther King Jr. on Mystery Religions
As a seminary student in 1950, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a paper titled “The...
January 16, 2014
Reincarnation and the Limits of Science
A professor at the University of Virginia has cataloged 2500 cases of children with past...
January 14, 2014
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